The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.
The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.
The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
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N641.815/29
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Family Tree -- Ch. 2. Of Bagels and Kings -- Ch. 3. Rituals, Rhymes and Revolutions: How the Bagel Lost its Worth but Kept its Value -- Ch. 4. Bagel Polemics in an Independent Poland -- Ch. 5. Boiling Over: The Immigrant Bagel and the Struggle for Workers' Rights -- Ch. 6. 'Kings of the L...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"Research in international archives and numerous personal interviews uncover the bagel's links with the defeat of the Turks by Polish King Jan Sobieski in 1683, the Yiddish cultural revival of the late nineteenth century, and Jewish migration across the Atlantic to America. There the story moves from the bakeries of New York's Lower East Side to th...
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The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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c2008.
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N641.815/29
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74VMjjLjvRdg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMjjLjvRdg
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ISBN
9780300112290 (ci : alk. paper)
DDC
641.815
MMS ID
991001223259702626
